Anya Rubin

www.anyarubin.com Rubin reflects upon the social, political, and spiritual conditions of contemporary culture as it is mediated by today’s fast-paced technology where information about the world is available at a moments notice. Working in painting and mixed media, Rubin creates an expressionist record of this current zeitgeist, using figures, historical references, and fragments of every day life and through them reveals what could be called the collective consciousness of contemporary society. For Rubin, the human spirit is the key to making sense of society’s fractured world and noting that in reality everything is interconnected. Her composition complements her intention as she uses skeins of paint as an element that do not separate the figures and objects, nor does it hide them but rather the skeins of paint work to define the connections and create a uniform almost mosaic like effect. Rubin is focusing on the psyche and the human spirit which is truly what binds us all. Rubin “sees” the world as